10 Lessons From a Rock Bottom Survivor

It’s as bad as you think it is

Iva Ursano
5 min readOct 5, 2021
Photo:me Credit:Terry Roy Photography

So I think I’m now on rock bottom #3, or is it 2? No, it’s definitely 3. I can’t believe I’ve almost lost count. That’s a pretty pathetic problem to have to be honest.

In the words of the great J K Rowling:

“Rock bottom is the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life”

Hey me too girl!! How many times for you?

Let’s be honest, it fucking sucks

If you’re reading this right now and have hit rock bottom before, you already know how hard it fucking sucks, amirite? Like the subtitle “it’s as bad as you think it is”, it really is.

No need to take you down memory lane to all my crashes. They happened. Trust me. The last one actually just happened in October of 2020. I imagine many of us crashed that year. It was definitely a tough shitty year.

So to be honest, I am still climbing my way out of that crash but to be fair, I’m almost done. Like I can see blue skies from here. I’ll make it out and smell prettier than ever before.

Or here’s to hoping anyway.

One thing you‘re certain to learn in rock bottom

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